Business Management Issues 1a) Pretend

Business Management Issues 1a) Pretend that you work at grocery store, what has been the biggest obstacle you have faced in trying to accomplish your objectives or goals, and how have you dealt with this challenge. What advice would you give others that face a similar situation? The biggest obstacle I have faced working in a supermarket has been taking orders from managers who are much less educated or intelligent than I am.

In many situations, I can easily think of better solutions than my managers to practical problems that do not really require formal training or professional experience. However, my input was not well received the first two times I tried to contribute to the organization in that manner; if anything, it seemed to antagonize my manager and make him more defensive and difficult to deal with.

I have dealt with this problem mainly by keeping my thoughts to myself in any situations where my input could potentially be misconstrued as disrespect, insubordination, or as an attempt to show my abilities off. It seems that some of the full-time, career employees already resent the fact that college students work in their place of business while we prepare for professional careers that some of them might not have had the opportunity to pursue.

I suppose that I would advise others working in the same situation to be careful to gauge the tone and temperament of others before assuming that well-intentioned input will be appreciated. 1b) Pretend that you work at grocery store, what has been the biggest obstacle you have faced in trying to accomplish your objectives or goals, and how have you dealt with this challenge.

What advice would you give others that face a similar situation? The biggest obstacle I have encountered at work in the supermarket has been avoiding depression working in this environment. On one hand, I realize that I am fortunate that this is just a part-time job for me that helps me pay some of my college expenses. On the other hand, while I am actually in this environment, it is difficult not to feel that this is where I am in my life right now.

Many of my co-workers have been working here for years (or even decades, in some cases), and even though I know that this is not my future, it is still a depressing environment to work in for eight hours at a time. I cope with this challenge by consciously reminding myself that this is not my professional future and that I am pursuing a college degree, unlike those who seem to have no better options available to them than to work in a supermarket for their entire adult lives.

If I were asked for advice from someone else thinking about taking this job for tuition expenses, I would advise them not to allow themselves to forget that this is only a practical means to a worthwhile end. I might also suggest that they try to use their break time to do reading for school to help them avoid feeling like this is their life.

2a) if your supervisor asked you the question, what motivates you to do your best work? How would you answer this question? If my supervisor asked me what motivates me to do my best work, I would respond that my father always taught me that you should always do your best at anything you do, regardless of what it is.

He taught me that any type of honest work is respectable and that a conscientious, honest, and hard-working bus driver or trash collector deserves more respect than a lazy or dishonest doctor or lawyer. I have tried to apply that principle to every part-time job that I have ever had and I discovered that even menial labor is much more satisfying when you make a conscientious effort and try to do it to the best of your ability.

It seems that even simple tasks can be psychologically rewarding when one solves problems and achieves a specific goal, regardless of the particular nature of the work itself. This is something that I learned the hard way after making less than a full effort at a relatively easy job. In some respects, I think I had trouble taking it seriously because I considered the work "beneath" me and unchallenging. Ironically, I did a very bad job at the work that I thought was so unchallenging.

Since then, I have made sure to devote myself more conscientiously to any task that I agree to take on and have discovered that the experience helped me understand how right my father was all along. 2b) if your supervisor asked you the question, what motivates you to do your best work? How would you answer this question? What motivates me to do my best work is maintaining my perspective in terms of the long-term purpose of any task that I take on.

If working in a supermarket (for example) is unfulfilling or even depressing.